UH OH!!

My sisters, cousins and I had a craft day at my cousin's house last month. It was crazy. We played with her Cricut and made pretty little things. I found myself wrestling with the idea of saving up for one of these babies, but decided that I'd just wish for one from afar. The cartridges are pretty expensive, so I figured I'd just make myself become extra handy with a good old pair of scissors or something.

Then today, I learned about this.

I'm in trouble.

Cityline

There isn't much on TV these days, especially during the day. Reruns of reruns of reruns. I need to crack open a book, seriously.

I'm watching Cityline right now, and Sandra Pittana is on. She drives me crazy. Sometimes when I see her on the show, I wanna take duct tape and tape her mouth shut. I apologize for the hostility. It's also got to do with the fact that she almost hit me with her car. ("Almost" as in missed me by about 5 cm.)

Seriously, she did. She was on her phone about to make a right turn into my face. When she realized that she almost hit me, she sorta just stared at me, shocked. And then I just stared at her back, wanting her to remember my face so that she'd never talk on her phone and drive again. And then I continued crossing the street to my doctor's office.

So you can understand why I'm planning to change the channel.

Next time

G20 dreams

I've been having G20-related nightmares. For those living in Toronto, you know how crazy things are expected to get here. I actually got invited to rally...I politely declined. Everyone I know is avoiding downtown Toronto. People who work downtown are either working from home or working off-site.

Mr.S has to go into work. His office is just outside the zone. I've been scared for weeks. I have no idea what exactly it is that I'm scared of, but I've been scared.

And so, I've been having nightmares. They're not really stretched out scary dreams, they're more like flashes of scary scenes. A flash of a crowd screaming. A flash of deserted city. A flash of collapsing buildings. A flash of people storming a guarded room. A flash of a bomb timer.

That last one was just this morning. I could hear the beeping of the timer and I was able to force myself to wake up, only to still hear the beeping while my eyes were open. I freaked out. I turned over frantically to see my husband missing from our bed. I yelled for him, covering D-nut's ears as he slept. Turns out, Mr.S forgot to turn off his morning alarm after pressing snooze several times, and so the clock was what was actually beeping.

Gah!!!! When this weekend is over, it'll be sweet dreams for me.

September 21, 2010

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Worrywart

I don't think I'm one to worry. Usually. And then I became a mother. Not just that. I became a NEW mother. There is a difference.

Experienced mothers across the globe would secretly giggle at me and the things I worry about. What can I say? This is all new to me even though I have 13+ nephews and nieces. It's amazing how little information you have about the most minor things that happen in an infant's life. My husband spent the first few weeks worrying about every little thing. You should have seen him when he saw our son's Mongolian spots. Even now, he doesn't like them and I think he isn't completely convinced they're normal and harmless. His face was priceless when he saw meconium too.

It's all a learning experience, I guess, right? You learn from the first one and then don't worry so much with the ones that follow. I just feel silly worrying all the time.

Hungabunga

Turns out Wild Wing is coming out with a chain of burger joints. Enter: Pink Burger.

Coming soon...in Aurora.

Womp. Womp.

Accessorizing the Saggy

I feel like my boobs are becoming saggy. I don't know if they actually are, but I feel like it. If I had a lot of money, I'd pretty-up the what-seems-like-growing gap between my neck and my cleavage with pretty necklaces from Anthropologie.

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I'm up

It's Friday night. I'm awake at 12:26AM, and not because my son is keeping me up. In fact, he and my husband are fast asleep in bed behind me. I can't sleep.

I had been on the road just over an hour ago, and these days, I'm doing a lot of driving. Most of the time it's just me, my son and my mind occupying the car. On many trips, my mind ends up hogging a lot of the space. I have a lot of time to think.

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At the mall

I live at the mall. Not any specific one, just the mall in general. Before D-nut was around people were telling me that I'd be hanging out at the mall a lot. I get it now. It breaks the monotony of being at home all day or the usual going for walks in the afternoon (lately it's been too hot for walks). It also just so happens that we have stuff to buy at the mall so it's not like I'm just being a mallrat.

Malls these days are very baby-mommy friendly, which is a very good thing. There are areas to nurse, microwaves for bottle warming, plenty of change tables in washrooms around the mall and family washrooms for when you've gotta pee too. You should see the teeny tiny toilets in some of the family washrooms. So cute!

Ooops!

Sorry for my brief disappearance. My son has become even more fun to play with these days and so I've been busy, yes, PLAYING.

I'll have posts up shortly!!